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Published on Nov 19, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

ASTHENOSPHERE

The plastic layer below the lithosphere.

CONTINENTAL DRIFT

Continents have moved slowly to their current locations.

CONVECTION CURRENT

The cycle of heating, rising, cooling, and sinking.

LITHOSPHERE

When the crust and a part of the upper mantle are combined.

PANGAEA

A large landmass which means "all land."

PLATE

Move on a plasticlike layer of the mantle.

PLATE TECTONICS

Earths crust and part of the upper mantle are broken into sections.

SEAFLOOR SPREADING

Hot material below earths crust rises toward the surface at the mid-ocean ridges.